Software Engineer (Backend-Java)

Position Overview

• Location Type: Not Specified
• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary: $107,000 - $120,600 a year

You will work on cross-functional teams to build scalable systems for our government, designing, implementing, and delivering services that millions of Americans depend on. You care deeply about working on technology that improves people’s lives, but don’t think technology is always the answer. You are passionate about building large-scale systems that are inclusive, well-designed, fast, scalable, and secure, and you'll help set high standards for our teams in terms of simplicity, empathy, and accessibility.

The Software Engineer role will be responsible for developing end-to-end systems for one of Nava's major government partners. The objective is to modernize an existing legacy enterprise platform to improve its public-facing processes and experiences, which will enable users to have more access to the programs and services that they need, in real-time, in a more user-friendly and uncomplicated way. This individual will be involved in everything, from strategy and planning through to post-production testing and support.

What You'll Do

• Work with fellow Nava engineers to design, review, and build well-crafted software.
• Collaborate with government partners and other contractors to architect, implement, and deploy new systems and improvements to existing systems.
• Work in an agile manner to efficiently ship new features that meet user needs.
• Create tools and processes to automate our development, testing, and production workflows.
• Write and review technical documentation, and perform code reviews.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support production systems and investigate issues when they occur.
• Take part in hiring activities (e.g., submitting referrals, conducting interviews, and attending interview debriefs), as needed.

Required Skills

• Open to Backend engineers.
• At least 5 years of experience working in an agile, multidisciplinary team environment, preferably designing and building medium to large-scale systems on Cloud platforms.
• Experience developing applications and APIs with Java, Spring Boot, Go, OpenAPI, Fargate, Lambda.
• Experience utilizing AWS cloud-native services and data engineering.
• Current and/or prior experience developing API endpoints with Java or Go.
• Tenacity to dive into problems and iterate in working code.
• Highly resourceful, reliable, and detail-oriented.
• Ability to think strategically around trade-offs and short-term vs. long-term benefits.
• An adaptive, empathetic, collaborative, and positive mindset.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, technical and otherwise.

Desired Skills

• Experience using Apache Spark and Parquet for data engineering.
• Experience with Node.js and Next.js (Javascript).